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    Re: Liquid Benedryl--How Much To Take?

    20-30 ml for your size. That would be 4-6 teaspoons or 1-2 tablespoons. Also take a Zantac 150mg tab available over the counter. Zantac is a histamine-1 blocker and Benadryl is a histamine-2...
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    Re: New website! WY & CO beeks

    Nice Ben
    Too bad you are so far south.
    Good luck
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    Re: Montana top bar beekeeper

    Welcome
    This forum has more usefull information than one can read in a lifetime.
    Wood's Bay has a whole different climate than the Gallatin Valley
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    Re: hello from Montana!

    Welcome from the Gallatin Valley. This a great site with wonderful people.
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    Re: Foxglove (digitalis pupurea) and Honey

    The adult dose of digitalis glycosides is 0.125mg or .25 mg daily for the treatment of congestive heart failure. Small amounts are very useful. Digitalis is contained in and extracted from the...
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    Re: fork lift ? skid steer ?

    Just get forks for your skid steer
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    Re: Newbee from Colorado

    Welcome from a little further north. Great site with tons of valuable information.
  8. Re: What is best to preserve the wood and keep natural finish - using cedar for boxes

    After 1 year and more after 2 years, the Tung Oil has cured to a nice golden color. I had a couple of gallons left from finishing a maple floor in my shop so i decided to use it up. A little goes a...
  9. Re: What is best to preserve the wood and keep natural finish - using cedar for boxes

    I use Tung Oil and the boxes look better every year.
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    Re: It's been pretty cold!!!!!

    Going to -15 tonight. Have not seen the girls since the first of November. Longest cold streak in a long time.
  11. Thread: Warmer Days

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    Re: Warmer Days

    Have not seen the girls in 6 weeks. It was -12 here this morning, high of 12, and already 0 at 7pm. Mice are not even moving. Probably not a good time to pop the top!! Nuc in the shop is alive and...
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    Re: "You just might be a beekeeper."

    If your pickup cab smells like smoke and your steering wheel is sticky, you just might be a beekeeper
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    Re: Trading Honey....anyone up for it?

    Where are you located?
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    Re: Girls were busy today 11-10-2012

    Mine are nowhere to be seen. At 9 pm it is -12 with 16 in snow on the ground and on the hives. Snow is a great insulator. Regards
  15. Re: 110 acres to plant for your bees, what would you plant? What would you NOT plant?

    Sainfoin would be my plant of choice.
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    Re: V Mite Questions

    Thanks guys for the guidance.

    Vance G: You are right on the name. Better living through chemistry. Not hard in my profession to get menthor or thymol. I am wondering, and may try, if camphor...
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    V Mite Questions

    Posted here as there is more activity than in Diseases

    I lost a hive last week. Here one day gone the next. After tearing it apart it was Grand Central NYC for V Mites. I had Apigard on it for...
  18. Thread: Snow coming in

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    Re: Snow coming in

    Mbeck
    Freezer is empty so elk hunting is high on the list this fall. Nothing like orange honey glazed elk steaks. Some cold and wet weather will start to drive them down from the high country.
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    Re: Snow coming in

    LAMO. When it hits 20 I will have to break out the Carharts and sweatshirt vs shorts and tee shirt.
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    Re: Snow coming in

    Snowing lightly, windy, and 34 degrees. Quite the change from 84 and sun yesterday. Gotta love living in the mtns.
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    Re: Sainfoin, Onobrychis viciifolia

    PM me. I bought some this spring.

    Peter W.
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    Re: Essentail oils as mite treatment

    Wintergreen Oil is methyl salicylate.
    Salicylic acid will kill your bees.
    Two entirely different chemicals.

    Peter W
    Reg Pharmacist
  23. Thread: Gerber Peas

    by Rxmaker
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    Re: Gerber Peas

    Trying to plan for next year. Yellow clover is on a 2 year cycle and this is the off year. Also YC depends on moisture and this year is slim to none. Hoping to get a plan for next year.
    Peter
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    Re: Russian Olive Trees

    Everyone:
    Thanks for the info. This is an invasive species here also but there is a great number of trees around as the State of MT up to 2008 offered these for sale at the state nursery.

    Ben:...
  25. Thread: Gerber Peas

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    Gerber Peas

    Another question. Local large wheat farmer is alternating wheat with peas. Regular eating peas for the Gerber Company. This was a shock this spring when I drove by a normally fallow field and...
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